Additional Web Resources
Why economic globalization is the most dangerous trend in the world today: http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2005/012005/wallach.html
How globalization is playing out in Iraq, environmental policy, and US foreign policy:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=3920
The Horizon Project is a set of new (April, 2007) policy initiatives crafted as an alternative to the failed and blinkered pro-globalization approach of Robert Rubin (former treasury secretary). It is clear-headed, persuasive, and urgently needed. Get a .pdf describing these exciting proposals here: http://www.horizonproject.us/images/FE/chain206siteType8/site175/horizon_final_0123.pdf
Transformation Central is working to expand what is sometimes called the "Solidarity Economy", but which is really just democratic economics. Their web site can be found here. This is perhaps the organization that working Americans should support.
Baffled by all the conflicting claims and disinformation about taxes, federal expenditures, the economy, and so on? Popular Economics sets the record straight: http://www.populareconomics.org/
The web site for Richard Robbins' "Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism" is a treasure trove of information on global problems and economic issues: http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/
The non-profit Co-op America has several on-line resources for socially responsible investing, consumer boycotts, community investment, shareholder initiatives and so on. See: http://www.coopamerica.org
The National Priorities Project has a flair for putting economics in concise, graphical form: http://www.nationalpriorities.org
The Ultimate Field Guide to the US Economy also provides incisive analysis: http://www.fguide.org
The People-Centered Development Forum which provides alternatives to globalization has a site at: http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/
"Think Tanks" providing much excellent information and analysis on a variety of topics include the following:
The
Center for Economic and Policy Research: http://www.cepr.net/
The Institute for Policy Studies: http://www.ips-dc.org/
The Economic Policy Institute: http://www.epinet.org/
One of the most important oganizations devoted to globalization is the Transnational Institute: http://www.tni.org/
(New) A resource for the whole spectrum of enormously successful, Green economic institutions may be found at:
http://www.community-wealth.com/
Start a cooperative: http://www.cooplife.com/startcoop.htm
Learn about Distributism, the "First Way" form of economics that makes every other way of organizing ownership look awful (because every other way of organizing ownership is awful): http://www.distributism.com/ (Please note that the PL perspective on religion and governance is quite different from what will be found at this site; but we strongly commend the concept of much more widely distributing the ownership of the means of production.)
Learn about proposed Green tax reforms at:
http://www.GreenTax.net and
http://www. earthrights.net
An explanation of the reasons why contemporary economics has become such an intellectual wasteland is offered at the following site by leading economist Geoffry Hodgson: http://www.paecon.net/PAEtexts/Hodgson1.htm